The Shah dynasty (Nepali: शाह वंश), also known as the Shahs of Gorkha or the Royal House of Gorkha, was the ruling Chaubise Thakuri dynasty and the founder...

Pahlavi dynasty (Persian: دودمان پهلوی) was the last Iranian royal dynasty that ruled for roughly 53 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded...

Muhammad bin Tughluq called himself the son of Tughlaq Shah ("bin Tughlaq"). The ancestry of the dynasty is debated among modern historians because the earlier...

The Shah Mir dynasty (Kashmiri: شاه میٖر خاندان) or the House of Shah Mir, was a Kashmiri dynasty that ruled the Kashmir Sultanate in the Indian subcontinent...

The dynasty's effective rule in Iran ended in 1925 when Iran's Majlis, convening as a constituent assembly on 12 December 1925, declared Reza Shah, a former...

Muhammad Shah (Persian: محمد شاه) was the third monarch of the Sayyid dynasty which ruled the Delhi Sultanate. He succeeded his uncle, Mubarak Shah to the...

that established their dynasty in the Indian subcontinent. Another subsidiary style of the Ottoman and Mughal rulers was Shah-i Alam Panah, meaning "the...

Sultanate under Mubarak Shah, which succeeded the Tughlaq dynasty and ruled the Sultanate until they were displaced by the Lodi dynasty in 1451. A contemporary...

points of the Qutb Shahi dynasty. He ascended to the throne in 1580 at the age of 15 and ruled for 31 years. Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah was the third son of...

themselves of Parthian rule, and established their own local dynasty of shahs. The dynastic name of "Afrighid" (Khwarazmian: ʾfryḡ) is not attested anywhere...

Shah II (r. 1837–1857), and exiled him (1858) to Rangoon in British-controlled Burma (present-day Myanmar). The Mughal designation for their dynasty was...

monarch from 1768 to 2008. He served as the head of the Nepalese monarchy—Shah Dynasty. The monarchy was abolished on 28 May 2008 by the 1st Constituent Assembly...

modern Iranian history, as well as one of the gunpowder empires. The Safavid Shāh Ismā'īl I established the Twelver denomination of Shīʿa Islam as the official...

His grandson Prithvi succeeded him as the king of Nepal. Himalaya Google Books History of the Shah Dynasty — official site (archived 10 November 2006)...

of Emperor Bahadur Shah I, and the grandson of Emperor Aurangzeb. Jahandar Shah was the first puppet ruler of the Mughal dynasty, having been placed...

Bikram Shah, Nepalese monarch from the house of Shah dynasty Bulleh Shah (c.1680–c.1758), Punjabi Sufi poet Daisy Shah, Indian Actress Eddy Shah, British...

Asian conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), who founded the Timurid dynasty in 1370. However, Shah Rukh ruled only over the eastern portion of the empire established...

Nader Shah Afshar (Persian: نادر شاه افشار; 6 August 1698 – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful...

dynasty. Ahmad Shah was born in Tabriz on 21 January 1897 and ascended the throne at the age of 12 after the removal of his father Mohammad Ali Shah by...

independent hill high states. After the death of Prithvi Narayan Shah, the Shah dynasty began to expand their kingdom into much of the Indian subcontinent...

Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah (also transliterated in different ways) was the second ruler of the Sultanate of Golkonda under the Qutb Shahi dynasty. He ruled from...

The Afsharid dynasty (Persian: افشاریان) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747) of the Qirqlu clan of the Turkoman Afshar tribe, ruling...

 1421–1434) was the second monarch of the Sayyid dynasty which ruled the Delhi Sultanate. Sultan Mubarak Shah was the son of Khizr Khan. He succeeded his father...

the influence of the Newars. One of the earliest Shah rulers was Rishi-raj Rana-Ji, of the Lunar dynasty (A Newars descendant). He was made the ruler of...

Kasthamandap. In 1816, the Shah kingdom ruled and the country's architecture was heavily influenced by the Newar style. During the Shah reign, various temples...

lasts to the present day. Durrani dynasty Safavid dynasty Delhi Sultanate "His patron, the ruler of Qandahar, Shah Hussain Hotak, who had a poetic and...

Regent Queens of Shah dynasty due to a power shift in the court. In Sak.1722 Queen Raj Rajeshwari Devi senior wife of Rana Bahadur Shah issued her own suki...

Pratap Singh Shah, King of Nepal (Nepali: श्री ५ महाराजाधिराज प्रतापसिंह शाह देव), (16 April 1751– 17 November 1777), was King of Nepal. He was the eldest...

in 2008. During this period, Nepal was formally under the rule of the Shah dynasty, which exercised varying degrees of power during the kingdom's existence...

of Agha Mohammad Shah (آغا محمد شاه, Âghâ Mohammad Šâh), was the founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran, ruling from 1789 to 1797 as Shah. Originally a chieftain...